APPENDIX. 195 
Cuckoo. — Contin. 
Father Kircher gives it (Musurgia, bk. i p. 30) as 
follows : — 
ray 
T t + f 
i I t 
Gu - cu, gu - cu, gu - cu 
Gardiner puts it in the major : — 
poe => > 
I t— L ———o 
See Index, Cuckoo. 
For intervals of English cuckoo song see Nature, vol. xxii., 1880, pp. 
76, 97, 122; vol. xxxvi., 1887, p. 344. 
For manner in delivery see Knight, F. A.: By Leafy Ways, p. 18. 
Bell-Bird. 
The cuckoo has a delightful rival in distinctness of 
utterance, one of the gayly-colored cotingas inhabiting the 
mountains of Demerara : — 
“The fifth species is the celebrated Campanero of the Spaniards, called 
Dara by the Indians, and Bell-bird by the English. He is about the size 
of the jay. His plumage is white as snow. On his forehead rises a spiral 
tube nearly three inches long. It is jet black, dotted all over with small 
white feathers. It has a communication with the palate, and when filled 
with air, looks like a spire; when empty it becomes pendulous. His note 
is loud and clear, like the sound of a bell, and may be heard at the dis- 
tance of three miles. In the midst of these extensive wilds, generally on 
the dried top of an aged mora, almost out of gun reach, you will see the 
campanero. No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of 
the forest, not even the clearly pronounced ‘ Whip-poor-Will’ from the goat- 
sucker, causes such astonishment as the toll of the campanero. With 
many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and 
an evening song; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the 
mouths of almost the whole of animated Nature, the campanero still cheers 
the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another 
